It did have a good hook. It was the launch for the Kang story! It was a terrific marketing hook, the film just sucked and couldn't deliver and quickly got clowned on. It's like saying GINO 98 had "bad marketing" when that thing was clearly set up to blitz the summer it was released in. If the movie sucks, the marketing often won't save it.
Hilarious. Even Deadline said there was extra 2.5 mil from the other days and people here still acted like Chixulub crashed into their house.
Never change, BOT.
AntMan 3 actually had a high launch and presales and got a lot of hype off the Kang thing. It tanked because it was poorly received, not because Feb. was an inherently bad slot for it.
I fail to see how GOTG3 didn't succeed in the slot it had with the hype it had. The movie was already profitable and succesful and worked in its current slot. Why reschedule and play a game of chicken with Mario in hopes that you could somehow make more in April?
Also Mario was NOT the only March release and GOTG3 would have had competition then as well.
I never knew you before this board. The only things I know are your hilarious rants on here like the "AntMan is more relevant than Avatar" one because I lurked here for a while.
Zatt thinks it somehow would have performed better in the Mario slot (because that had "less competition") and that Mario would have automatically moved despite the massive hype/presales. I've been trying to point out to him this is a bad idea in the hope the actual MCU schedulers aren't on here lurking and don't try anything stupid.
What "stunt"? Moving it away from the Avatar slot to maximize its revenue? I'd say that worked pretty well for it!
And the days of people moving away from MCU releases is likely to end if Marvels performs similar to AntMan3. MCU isn't in DCU territory but its films aren't going to automatically inspire fear.
No, he's literally saying Universal would've punted Mario in terror to some other slot if Disney had somehow rescheduled GOTG3 to Mario's window. That was his actual response!
GOTG3 had a fine release slot and got over 350 mil. Putting it against Mario and hoping Mario would blink given the massive presales is "Napoleon invades Russia during winter" level strategy.
Yes. Fucking MARIO, one of the biggest gaming franchises beloved for GENERATIONS would run from GOTG3. I really wish I had what you were smoking right now.
MI7 will most likely do considerably more than Fast X did. Beasts did more than Fast X did in the US, it's not that big an accomplishment. I think we're extrapolating too much from Deadline advance numbers on a Tuesday.
Zatt, to be honest, watching you lose your shit regularly is the main reason I come here. It's far more entertaining than the wretched "Barbenheimer" or whatever discourse or people too dumb to know what Mario is, but I gotta say...
You need to learn about "economy of resources" and not try to do these insanely long posts. It's a pain to read.
I already now hate this movie (and Barbie) because of the marketing.
Oh well. At least I got to deep six THE GREATEST SUPERHERO MOVIE SINCE THE DARK KNIGHT.
SMB didn't get what it got because of "lack of competition". What actually happened was a substantial teen/adult audience got cannibalized from other movies by it.